• Question: Can anything survive a supernova?

    Asked by Alex to Ry on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Ry Cutter

      Ry Cutter answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Probably no 🙁 Certain bugs a really tiny animals (like tardigrades) that can survive in space and large doses of radiation might be able to. The light created by the supernova is strong enough to cook almost everything on Earth. If you survive that you’d then be hit by a massive shockwave that would blow you out into space.
      If you can survive in space you’re destined to float for the rest of time… it’d be cold and lonely.
      Supernova leave the remnants to make new solar systems, it’s called the stellar life cycle; so it’s not all sad 😀
      Great question,

      Ryan

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